Look, I’m sorry, but the link in the post is broken, the post itself is over 10 years old and describes a document that is basically meeting minutes about what they might want to do, and it affects cell providers, NOT manufacturers. I can’t see that what is being talked about here is even policy, much less established law. If we want to actually discuss this rule, we need to know the rule, and I there’s nothing here to support the assertion that it is in any way illegal to turn off your GPS, combined with the fact that you could always (marketing aside) assert that the Librem 5 is not a cell phone.
To be clear, I in no way am saying this to assert that the federal government, through short-sighted overreach, incompetence, or the corrrupt self-interest of an individual, may not want or happen to push a policy that causes it to be illegal to turn off your GPS. I just don’t see any evidence of that here.